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galianogangster [2019-06-05 01:32:06 +0000 UTC]
Used your stock here!
Let me know if you want that £2.5 or 10%! The buyer paid $20 for the piece!
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AB-Norway [2018-11-06 20:19:53 +0000 UTC]
Magnificent as Your illustration is, it contains a basic flaw. The composite bow the Scythians and later on the Sarmatians used was much smaller, it was mostly put in a combined bowcase and quiver called a "gorytos" when not in use. This quiver contained some 30-40 arrows.
The much larger and far more powerful bow shown on the photograph, slung on the upper body when not in use and with a quiver of its own on back was a central Asiatic weapon that came with the Huns. So powerful as it was, the quiver only carried a dozen or so arrows.
The bow shown, the so-called "Hunnic bow" was what gave the Huns their massive advantage over Scytho-Sarmatian tribes - it easily punctured the armour of noblemen, consequently the Huns had next to no heavy cavalry except as mobilized from vassal peoples.
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